Combining Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) results in a promising hybrid molecular imaging modality as it unifies the high sensitivity of PET for molecular and cellular processes with the functional and anatomical information from MRI. Digital Silicon Photomultipliers (dSiPMs) are the digital evolution in… (More)

PET (positron emission tomography) with its high sensitivity in combination with MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) providing anatomic information with good soft-tissue contrast is considered to be a promising hybrid imaging modality. However, the integration of a PET detector into an MRI system is a challenging task since the MRI system is a sensitive device… (More)

In this work, we present an initial MR-compatibility study performed with the world's first preclinical PET/MR insert based on fully digital silicon photo multipliers (dSiPM). The PET insert allows simultaneous data acquisition of both imaging modalities and thus enables the true potential of hybrid PET/MRI. Since the PET insert has the potential to… (More)

In modern positron emission tomography (PET) readout architectures, the position and energy estimation of scintillation events (singles) and the detection of coincident events (coincidences) are typically carried out on highly integrated, programmable printed circuit boards. The implementation of advanced singles and coincidence processing (SCP) algorithms… (More)

Silicon based photon detectors make it nowadays possible to build highly integrated PET detectors for simultaneous PET/MRI. Although the operating principle of silicon photo-multipliers is believed to be insensitive to the strong magnetic fields inside MRI machines, the construction of an MRI compatible detector has to cover considerably more aspects of MRI… (More)

2012, our group presented the Hyperion IID platform which uses PDPC's digitial SiPMs (DPC). In this work we use the same platform equipped with scintillator dimensions closer to a clinical application. This allows an investigation of the time of flight (ToF) performance of the platform and its behavior during simultaneous MR operation. We employ LYSO… (More)

The combination of PET and MRI into a hybrid device is challenging since both systems might interfere with each other. Therefore, the study of the MR-compatibility of such a combined device is crucial to understand and solve potential interference phenomena. Interference problems, which typically occur and are reported by several groups, range from B 0… (More)

In recent years, several groups have presented combined PET/MRI devices for clinical and preclinical research. Using new technologies like SiPMs, the performance of the systems improved over the years allowing a detailed exploration of the relatively new field of hybrid imaging modality. First presented at the NSS/MIC 2012, our group built a PET/MRI insert… (More)